For twenty five years, Dr. Pamela E. Wilson has been helping people restore their bodies to optimal function through the use of Manual Medicine. The Wilson Center in Red Bank, NJ, specializes in physical medicine, functional training, metabolic testing and nutritional counseling. The facility focuses on both returning the injured patient to their optimal quality of life as-well-as functional performance training for recreational, competitive, elite, and professional athletes. Her clientele history includes prominent athletes that compete in both national and international arenas including the NHL and the Olympic Games. Her Olympic athletes have cumulatively won silver, bronze and gold medals. Dr. Wilson helped Matt Long, a New York City Firefighter and triathlete, who was critically injured in 2005, achieve his goal of completing the New York City Marathon in 2008 and Ironman Lake Placid in 2009.
Dr. Wilson has relentlessly pursued health and fitness knowledge as-well-as living a healthy lifestyle. She was a state ranked sprinter in high school and a nationally ranked athlete in college. She earnied her B.S. degree in Health and Physical Education with a minor in Recreational Outdoor Pursuits. During the 1980”s she developed one-on-one training protocols in fitness facilities in NJ, after studying with Arthur Jones and Ellington Darden in Florida. She earned her Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Logan College of Chiropractic (St. Louis, MO) in 1989. Subsequent to her doctoral studies, and as part of her ongoing education, Dr. Wilson was invited to study in Prague, with the Czech neurology and manual medicine practitioners, Dr.Vladimir Janda, Dr. Karel Lewit, and Pavel Kolar PT. She pursued additional studies with Dr. Karel Lewit in Firenze, Italy. In 2001, she accepted an invitation to study with Charles Poliquin, an internationally renowned personal strength and conditioning coach. That same year, she was selected to participate in a multi-disciplinary symposium at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University Hospital, to exchange knowledge with other chiropractors as well as osteopaths, physiatrists, and physical therapists.
In 1999, Dr. Wilson became Level III Certified with the American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board. Dr. Wilson is also a member, by invitation and testing, of the International Society of Clinical Rehabilitation Specialists (ISCRS). She is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association and the American College of Sports Medicine. Dr. Wilson is a certified provider for Active Release Techniques (ART) and is also a Kinesio Taping Practitioner.
Dr. Wilson taught as a postgraduate faculty instructor for Southern California University of Health Sciences and Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and traveled to Bournemouth, England to instruct European chiropractors on the techniques of rehabilitation and manual medicine.
Dr. Wilson developed core stabilization principles and exercises for cyclists and triathletes and taught these protocols to professional bike fitters at an international level. She is professionally published in the textbook “Functional Training Handbook: Flexibility, Core Stability and Athletic Performance” to be released by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in 2014. She authored a chapter on cycling biomechanics, functional training and custom functional bicycle fit.
